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October 09, 2005
Spatial Construction
Rodchenko's idea of "listening to the voice of nature is interesting in the context of the time in which he lived... many artists were involved in using geometric shapes. For example in cubism, the key concept underlying Cubism is that the "essence of an object can only be captured by showing it from multiple points of view simultaneously". In a sense Rodchenko did this in his sculpture, his geometric shapes moved and showed us many sides to the harmony of nature and perhaps the power of shapes reinforcing the structure of other shapes.
There is something very beautiful about his spheres that show multiple inward spheres descending in scale... There is a kind of resonance in his use of repetition, by resonance I mean that he achieves a strength through a kind of frequency.
When I was working on our movement project I couldn't help thinking about Duchamp's "Nude descending a staircase". I see Rodchenko as another step forward in my thinking of how shapes can move through space.
Posted by David Bamford at October 9, 2005 07:45 PM